Sorry B, I thought it would be easy to find the relavent articles and posts, it isn't!
This: CPU Throttling
Touches on the problem which is that many modern laptops have power control systems that the tyro simply does not know about and even experienced computer peeps find hard or even impossible to disable so, whilst the raw spec of a laptop might appear impressive on paper that power cannot be used in practice for music recording/manipulation.
You don't say (or this BOF missed it!) what exactly you are using but either you had the specialist know-how to choose the right machine off the shelf or you did the, rather deep, mods? Of course it could have been the same situation that obtained when Wife bought me an HP i3 g6, blind luck! The G6 will run a 15track Cubase LE6 recording effortlessly. It is also very quiet mechanically (as is my HP W7/64 tower.) and even the OB sound is very acceptable jacked into my Tannoy 5as (I do NOT however attempt to record with OBS! No, NI KA6 takes care there).
Not arguing Bobbs just saying that there are some well specified but musically useless lemons about! I don't have the need but were I to go mobile I would put a decent MOBO in a rack with a decent PCI/PCIe card (tho' they are getting like rocking horse droppings now!) and/or usb/usb 3.0/ FW capability. A 22inch,WS monitor (or 100quid telly!) is not the beast to lug it once was and knocks spots off a 15inch lappy display, not "tied" to the works either!
Dave.
This: CPU Throttling
Touches on the problem which is that many modern laptops have power control systems that the tyro simply does not know about and even experienced computer peeps find hard or even impossible to disable so, whilst the raw spec of a laptop might appear impressive on paper that power cannot be used in practice for music recording/manipulation.
You don't say (or this BOF missed it!) what exactly you are using but either you had the specialist know-how to choose the right machine off the shelf or you did the, rather deep, mods? Of course it could have been the same situation that obtained when Wife bought me an HP i3 g6, blind luck! The G6 will run a 15track Cubase LE6 recording effortlessly. It is also very quiet mechanically (as is my HP W7/64 tower.) and even the OB sound is very acceptable jacked into my Tannoy 5as (I do NOT however attempt to record with OBS! No, NI KA6 takes care there).
Not arguing Bobbs just saying that there are some well specified but musically useless lemons about! I don't have the need but were I to go mobile I would put a decent MOBO in a rack with a decent PCI/PCIe card (tho' they are getting like rocking horse droppings now!) and/or usb/usb 3.0/ FW capability. A 22inch,WS monitor (or 100quid telly!) is not the beast to lug it once was and knocks spots off a 15inch lappy display, not "tied" to the works either!
Dave.